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oxacillin

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oxacillin /ox·a·cil·lin/ (ok″sah-sil´in) a semisynthetic penicillinase-resistant penicillin used as the sodium salt in infections due to penicillin-resistant, gram-positive organisms.
oxacillin [ok″sah-sil´in]
a semisynthetic penicillinase-resistant penicillin used orally or parenterally as the sodium salt in infections due to penicillin-resistant, gram-positive organisms.
oxacillin
a semisynthetic penicillin used as the sodium salt.
oxacillin
A semisynthetic penicillin
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Culture of the pus from the abscesses yielded an MRSA isolate that was resistant to oxacillin and susceptible to all non-[beta]-lactam antimicrobial drugs tested by Vitek 2 AST-P536 card (bioMerieux, Marcy l'Etoile, France).
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA400 clone, Italy by Vignaroli, Carla; Varaldo, Pietro E.; Camporese, Alessandro / Emerging Infectious Diseases
In the early stages, the infection can often be treated while nursing is continued from that breast by administering an antibiotic such as dicloxacillin or oxacillin, 250 mg four times daily for 7?
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Methicillin is no longer commercially available, and in many laboratories testing for methicillin resistance has been replaced by oxacillin and/or cefoxitin.
Comparison of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ... by Fadheel, Zena H.; Perry, Holly E.; Henderson, Ross A. / New Zealand Journal of Medical Laboratory Science
 
 
 
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